Cal/OSHA Staff Face Pressure On COVID-19 Exclusion Pay, ‘Close Contact’ Test

Staff at California OSHA’s (Cal/OSHA) standards board are facing pressure from worker-safety advocates and members of the panel itself to more fully explore the potential impacts from a proposed long-term COVID-19 safety rule that would eliminate exclusion pay and redefine the definition of “close contact” from the current, temporary policy. “I share the concern about the elimination of exclusion pay and the impact that’s going to have on the ability to prevent infection in the workplace, and to give workers...